Across language families: Genome diversity mirrors linguistic variation within Europe

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 630-640

  Longobardi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Ghirotto, Silvia ^c   Guardiano, Cristina ^d   Tassi, Francesca ^c   Benazzo, Andrea ^c   Ceolin, Andrea ^a   Barbujani, Guido ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

genome wide diversity; human evolutionary history; parametric comparison method; single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MIGRATION; POPULATION DISPERSION; ALGORITHM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84947037737     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22758     Document Type: Article

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